Portable lamp.



Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

PORTABLE LAMP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 25.19IT.

Crawl To all wlwmz't mag 'c oncemky J :1 Be it known that "I; "ETH'AN I.1Doons, -a'=' citizenof the United States, andares'ident of Pittsburgh, in the county" of. Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful". Improvements in ii'rHAn r. bonns; or'rrr'rsnunen, rmviwsrnvnnm, ASSIGNOR r rn'nmmar BOLT v OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

1 Portable Lamps and I do hereby declarev primary source of light shall have 'been. e r

tinguished, whereby the lamp may be em.- ployed in places where a mild light'isdesired. K

as hereinafter set .the claims.

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the followingi-to'be a ifull clear, and exact descriptionof; the invent1on,1 -suchwill enable others skilled in the artlto'fwhich it appertains tomakeand use the; same. VA

This invention relates toimprovements nportable lighting devices, the' object of the invention being to provide'a lamp contain-(- ing material which may be made lumln ousf by a primary. source of light'contained withv in the lamp, and which will retain ts lum u nosity; for aconsiderablefiriod after the A further object provide a portable electric lam with illuminating means-fac- 'tivated b llght flashes -from the lamp fila-' ment, an which maybe kept luminous for a considerable period after'the-electric light shall have been extinguished; and thus. economize in the use of electric current from the small battery .carriedbysuch portable a i valved piston 11 which operates in an air pot electriiflarnp's. I

Afurther object is to prov de s mple and eficient means for. controlling the lighting and extinguishing offthe primary electric,

lamp.

1 With'these and other objects iniview, the

invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts In theacconipanying drawings ';1 Figure '1 invention and Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail 1 represents a casingfwhich may contain a battery (illustrated diagrammatically at 2,

Fig. 2) suitable for lighting. a small incandescent lamp 3. The lamp 3 issupported by a suitable bracket or holder l mounted upon the casing 1, and this bracket or holder also supports globes 5and 6, one disposed within the other and the inner globe 6 containing the incandescent lamp 3.

The inner face of the outer globe 5 is coated as at 7 with a material which will absorb forth and pointed out in sesame nmr.f..

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a light eviz bcactivated be rendered lum1nous,--by'l1ght rays emanating :from 'the incandescent lamp 3,--or if desired the coating'may'beapplied to the exterior of the inner'globe. Such coating may comprise such material as zinc or calcium sulfid and. also preferably contain a .very small quantity of radloactive material, such as a .salt of radium. I v Experience has shown that such an illuminatlng coating may be activated by comparatively periodically shortlight flashes and that .the coated lobe will remain luminous for a-considera le length of time after the in- 'cande scent-lamp' shall have been extinfuishedpand that it will afford sufficient ight to illuminate the surrounding area for .ordmar? slred.

purposeslwhere a mild light is deot the circuit of keeping it closed or energizingaof the light the devices now to be exis 'conne'cted with the-push button and passes through a suitable hole in the casing,--the nner endof said rod being provided with a 12- secured within the casing 1. Flexible contact fingers 13 -13 are suitably supported withinthe caslng 1- at respective sides of the rod 10, and the latter carries a connector 14 which may convenientlyconsist of a disk secured to the rod. The fingers of the circuit closer thus formed may be included in series with battery 2 and lamp 3 as illus trated in Fig. 2. A spring 15 located within the thimble 8 serves to retain the push button and connector in and return them to norcontact'with the fingers 13 and the lamp cirspring fingers 13, thus closing the lamp circuit and pressing said fingers inwardly as illustrated by. dotted lines in Fig.2. Durmalposition, with the connector 14. out of 'ing the inward movement of the push button,the piston 11 will move freely in the air pot12, but when the operator releases the push button, the return movement of the same and the connector 14. will be rellQ tarded by the-air-pot structure and the lamp circuit will thus be closed and the incandescent lamp kept lighted for a sufficient length of time to insure the proper actlvating or energizing the illumlnating coatlng, even though the operator should release the push button immediately after .having pressed the same inwardly.

The casing 1 may be provided with a handle 16. a

Having fullydescribed my lnventlon, what I claim as new and desire to'secure by Letters-Patent, is g 1.A portable lamp comprising a casing, electric lighting means carrled thereby, a

globe mounted on said casing and containing v phosphorescent material and inclosing the source of light of said lighting means, means for closing and opening the circuit of said electric lighting means, and means for retarding the opening of said circuit.

2. A portable lamp, comprising a casing,

- a globe mounted on said casing, a coating of phosphorescent material Within'said globe,

an electric lamp disposed within said globe,

means Within the casing 5r supplying electric current to such electric lamp, a mantlally operable circuit closer carried by the casing for controlling the electric lamp to activate the said phosphorescent coating, means for openlng said circuit closer, and means for retarding the opening of the circuit closer.

3. A lamp comprising a globe containing a coating of phosphorescent material, an

electric lighting device Within the globe forv activating said coating, an electric circuit for said lighting device, a circuit closer comprising yielding fingers -1ncluded in said electric circuit and a movable spring-actumg witnesses.

ETHAN I. DODDS. Witnesses:

EDWIN SPENCERBY,

F. H. ALLISON. 

